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New Zealand Herald, Volume V, Issue 1309, 27 January 1868, Page 3

A Provincial Government Gazette was published on Saturday, and, with the exception of the Tnranaki land sale and schedule of accepted tenders, will be found elsewhere. Wo notice tho following gold-field proclamation :—" When horse, steam, or wuter power is employed, each horse-power shall be deemed equal to three men." Does this mean that for every horse power the user may take up three men's ground ? —or does it mean that they must take out three miners' licenses ? Tendeks. —Tenders nrc invited by his Honor the Superintendent, receivable at his office up to noou of Monday, the 10th of February, for the erection of a ijesiclent Magistrate's Courthourse and lock-up at Shortland. The addition of the*e two institutions speaks well for the increasing importance and progress of Shortland Town. Tenders are also invited for the erection of a Custom-house. Information as to form of tender, &c, may be obtained at the Public Works Office. Princes-street, and at the Cii'il Commissioner's Oifice, Shortlnnd.

Important Land Sale. —We beg to call the attention of capitalists to theextensivesaleof town and suburban lands.toboheld by Messrs. Samuel Cochrane and Son, at the Waste Lands Office at noon to-day. The land to be offered, comprises lots at Onchunga, Ilowick, Mount JCden, Puni, Parnell, Newmarket, Brighton, North Shore, Xaipara, and other places, and the lauds ivill be sold iu lots of 50 acres, or from 50 acres, upwards, as purchasers may desire. Hecei'hon MeetiNO.—The reception meeting of the I!ev. W. J. Deans will take place tomorrow evening, in the Primitive Methodist ■Chapel, Eihvards-street. Tea will be provided at 0 o'clock p.m., after which a public meeting will be held, at which several ministers and friends are expected to deliver addresses. The proceeds will be in aid of the trust fund. Auckland Natal Volunteers.—The members of this corps arc ordered to muster for batterv drill at Fort Britomart, at six a.m. tomorrow. The monthly inspection parade will take place on Friday next, at half-past seven p.m., in the drill shed, and members of the corps at the Thames will be inspected ou the following evening, at six p.m. Royal Cavalry Volunteers.—The parade of thia corps announced for Wednesday next, lias been postponed until Wednesday, the 12th of February, at three o'clock p.m., at One-Tree Hill. Auckland Gymnasium.—The Auckland Amateur Gymnasts will give a good acrobatic and Gymnastic performance in the Commissariat iron store, Princes-street, at 8 p.m. Maso.nic Lodge St. Andrew. —The monthly meeting of this lodge will be held at 7 o'clock this evening. A meeting of No. C Company A. li. V. will be held at the Drill-shed, Princes-street, this evening, at half-past 7 o'clock. Any members ■who have not received notice of the meeting are requested to apply to the secretary. _ Cm r East Elkction.—The nomination of a duly qualified candiate to serve in the Provincial Council, for the electoral district of the City East, will take place at noon to-day, in the Hall of the Mechanics' Institute, and the poll if necessary, will be taken at the same time and place to-morrow. The two candidates who have been for some time in the field are Messrs. W. J. Hurst, and 0. Davis. H.M. Gaol, Mount Eden.—Weekly sfate ending January 25th. IS6S : —Awaiting trial before Supreme Court, 4 males; sentenced to penal servitude, 39 males; sentenced to hard labour, 123 males, 8 females ; in default of bail, 4 males, 3 females; detained for imprisonment, 2 males ; debtors, 7 males. Discharged during the week, 13 males, 4 females; received during the week, 14 males, 2 females. Total in gaol, 179 males, 11 females.—Tnos. Young, Acting Gaoler.

Boat Found.—Yesterday Constable Carrigan of the Water Police, picked up a jolly-boat adrift in the harbour, and which is retained until claimed by the owner. It is painted black outside and lead colour within.

Naiujow Escape.—A young woman, living in Hobsou-strcet, had a narrow escape of drowning yesterday. It appears she was bathing in company with some other females at Carr's Point, when, getting out of her depth, she was taken out by the ebb tide. A man, named Edward Lysnar, fortunately happened to be passing at the time, and, hearing the alarm, he rushed to the beach and plunged into the water. He succeeded in getting hold of the drowning female, and ultimutely in bringing her to land, though with considerable difficulty the girl's dress entangling between his legs and impeding his swimming. Be-enxistment. —About twenty men ot the 18th liegiment re-engaged for a further period of service on Saturday last, and were duly sworn in before the Eesident Magistrate. Either the increased bounty or the excellent discipline of the corps or both seem to have had due weight with the men, a large number of whom have lately re-enlisted. On Sunday last the Eight P.ev. Dr. Pompallier, Bishop o£ Auckland, made a pastoral visit to Otahuhu, where he arrived about eleven o'clock a.m. The respected pastor of the place, Bev. Father O'Jlara, received bis Lordship in ft most religous and filial manner. At eleven o'clock there was a high mass, presided over by his Lordship, the celebrant being Kev. Father O'Mara, Deacon; "Very Kev. Dominick Galosi, 0.5. F., and Sub-deacon ; Rev. Francis Anthony Mahoney, 0.5.1?. On this occasion the Bishop confirmed a great many persons, who were well prepared by the local pastor, for the reception of this sacrament. His Lordship delivered a most eloquent discourse, the subject being the salutary advantages to be derived from the worthy reception of tlio Sacrament of Confirmation. This sermon was Heard with the greatest attention by a large and respectable congregation. In the evening the Bishop gave pontifical vespers and benediction of the Blessed Sacrament, at which his Lordship delivered a most touching discourse. The sacred music at mass and vespers was well rendered by an efficient choir, and the sanctuary children, who were very numerous on this occasion, discharged their duties with edification.— Communicated.

The Challenge to the A. K. "V.—TTe un- j derstand tliat a match has been arranged between Mr. Hazard of the A.K.V. and Mr. Sly of No.' 2 company Scottish Kifles, Dunedin. Tho firing will take placo to-morrow, at tho rifle iange, Point Chevalier, the men taking their departure from town at 7 o'clock. Congregational Church, Ne-.vton. — The usual Sabbath services were held in this church yesterday, when collections were made in aid of the building fund. The Hev Mr. LaishJey preached in the morning at eleven o'clock; the lfev. J. .1.1. Parsons, at three o'clock in the afternoon ; and thelxev. G. L. Harper at G. 30 in the evening. The Australian Squadbon.—The Times of the sth November says : —'• The defects in the machinery of the screw steam sloop Kosario, 11, Commander Louis H. Versturme, are beinir made good at Plymouth, after which she will sail for her destination—Australia. A/R.V.—The usual monthly inspecting parade of the Auckland Rifle Volunteers, will take place at G o'clock to-morrow morning, when all members absent without leave will be fined in accordance with the Tolunteer Act. The Bishop of New Zealand, ssys the Neie Zealand Examiner of the 31st October, addressing a meeting in support of the Society for the propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts, held in Belfast, spoke very favorably of the natives. It was the force of circumstances, he said, which drove them to rebel. They were as hospitable a people as the Irish. He could assure the audience that no murderous spirit, no rancour was in their hearts. They were full of a desire to be united to the English nation. They had come to him and given him land, described in their own words thus :—" We give this as a site for a college for the two races, to be brought up together in the fear of God and in the Love of Christ, and in obedience to the Queei."

How the Customs ade Defrauded.—Ou Saturday night last an incident occurred which niny serve to throw somo light on the way in which the oraule is worked. A man wont into the Scotia Hotel and offered a keg of rum for sale. The landlady, without intending to purchase it. proceeded to examine the cask, and was ahout to draw a spile at one end of it when the vendor hastily stopped her, and, with some excuse or other, turned the cask end for end. Feminine curiosity was at once aroused by the proceeding, and though a small portion of rum, of anything but inferior quality, was drawn from the end selected by the man. the landlady insisted on try in;,' the other. This was effected without much difficulty, the follow being in a hopeless state of intoxication, prohably having partaken too freely of the contents at the rUjhl end. What was the astonishment ot the landlady on trying the other end of the cask, to find that it contained only water. The cask had been ingeniously divided into two parts so as to contain about one-fourth spirits, the remaining space being filled with water ; of course the landlady refused to enter into so very onesided a bargain. Subsequently both the fellow and his keg fell into the hands of the police, and Ihe latter now lies in the lock-upj open to inspection by.the curious. The Late Disturbance i>? the Brunswick Hall.—The practical joke recently perpetrated in the Brunswick Hall, and the consequent reconlre in the gallery, have, as we hinted in our issue of Friday last, resulted in legal proceedings. The young gentleman said to have been the perpetrator of the joke oa that occasion is Mr. J. Pees, who is in the employment of Messrs. A. Clark and Son. We believe an action in the district Court has been brought against Mr. Walter Sherwin, damages being laid at £100. Unles3 compromised in the meantime, the action will come on for trial in about three weeks' hence.

The Fenian Execution.—The Spectator of the 23rd November says :—" The worst sign of the outbreak of race-hatred which we have always feared, is the Birmingham procession of triumph over the approaching executions. An open-air meeting to petition for the commutation of sentence was summoned on Wednesday evening, which earned out a meeting to rejoice over the executions. The crowd did some mischief that night; but more the next (Thursday), brutally marching through the Irish quarters, " cheering defiantly," and attacking the Soman Catholic Cathedral during evening service. The Irish of course defended their church, and attacked the mob, and a riot ensued. A police force succeeded in dispersing them for the time ; but it is said that this anti-Irish mob is weli organized, and marched "in military order, under the guidance of recognized leaders." This triumph over the Irish for the condemnation of their countrymen is worse, in feeling at least, than even the rescue of Kelly and Deasy; and if it should lead to equally fatal results, we shall have more executions that will not be matter of triumph, for English Protestants.

The Alleced Subjierging of the Island of Tortola. The London Spectator of tlio 23rd November, savs :—" T]ie intelligence received last Saturday,—through the very unsafe channel of a telegram to the New York Herald, —that Tortola, the chief of the Virgin Islands, one of our "West Indian possessions, had been submerged in the convulsion of the 29th October which was at once tornado and earthquake, seems to be an extravagant fable. But it was at least in London for two or three days, and gave a greater shock to the imaginations of men than any story of natural convulsions had done since the earthquake of Lisbon. Though, no estimate of its population exceeded 10,000, and Lisbon lost 00,000 inhabitants, there was something even more striking to the imagination of men in the total disappearance of an island of some 48 square miles beneath the sea, —like a ship going down with all hands on board,— than in the mere ruin even of a great city. It was possible ; for the soil of large tracts of coast in India has risen and fallen many feet within tlic memory of living men, and small islands, if shaken by earthquake at all, are usually liable to much severer convulsions than continents. But the sudden and complete extinction by the sea of a settlement of human beings, —a settlement of two hundred years' life, even under British rule —and without any soul left to tell the talc, or any possible means of arriving at the story of the catastrophe, seemed an event completely unparalleled in history. The doctrine of continuity iu all Nature's doings has never received such a frightful check as it would have done from this gaping of the sea to swallow a British colony whole, with all its appurtenances of civilization, had it proved true. Why should not the Isthmus of Panama itself have gone next, and the Atlantic mingled its waters with the Pacific, with Heaven knows what results ? Almost anything seemed possible, if that were. Fortunatelv, however, though we have no direct news from'Totola later than the great hurricane of the 29th October, it does not seem that it had lost even so many lives as were lost afc St. Thomas's. The Neie York Herald has for once thrown up a news-inventor of genius, one who can imagine a truly sensational event, without passing thebounds of tropical possibilities."

False Alahm:. —Judge Johnston stated at Wellington the other day that " much misapprehension and unnecessary alarm existed in reference to the Coinage Oflences Act. It had been brought to his notice that the popular view of the subject matter of this 4.ct had given considerable fear and annoyance to certain tradesmen and others, therefore he might, for their comfort, remark that there was quite an erroneous impression, quite a mistaken notion about the Act prevalent, the law was in no way changed, and there ■nras no, danger whatsoever in passing tradesmen's tokens and those other copper coins common to the country. In fact, the Coinage Offences Act was of but little importance."

MADAME CABANDINTS CONCERTS. Tire attendance at the Brunswick Hall on Friday night speahs well for the popularity of these entertainments. Ihe programme was virtually the same as that produced on the preceding Saturday evening; nnd to this very fact we attributed a great measure of our enjoyment last evening, for we must confee3 that with regard *o music, our own ideas are decidedly antagonistic to those modern Athenians who run up an£ down the city "to hear some new thing." To f'ur mind music, like painting, does not dsvelope the full beauty of its charms to the passor-by, but requires closo and patient observation from all who would thoroughly appreciate ite moiite. At the same time to are opposed to encores, which invariably ?poil our genuine enjoyment of the piece, for we never yet heard a sontr thu3 repeated (as it were in the same breath) without a cloudy sense of disappointment at the ialling ofi , of sunny freshness ani vigour in its repetition; and when the artist substitutes ecme other piece, both song and Dinger ure at a diaadvantage with the audience. Madame Carandini pleased Uβ very much in both her sorjga, and indeed in everythiag in which she took n part; the pa.th.o- with which she gave utterance to the beautiful sentiments in the eavatina " One gentle ho-.rt,' , was characteristic of the refined elegance of her singing In the Ir'.sh bilLid "Eatey'a Lutter" she won the genuine plaudits of all her hoarere. The sisto s a vug a s Kwectly as ever, anil were generally encored. "JesSie'3 Dream," by SI is? Fannie wivs H. great success; so were her two t-'cotch and tiLh srags (successively) in tho second part. "We h'ive seldom heard a more pW&ing contralto voice; her lower notes are very fine, being entirely free from that masculine hoarsenees which is bo frequently observable in many public singers. Miss Kosina pleased us most (as before) with her bn-lmnt and artistin execution of a mther lengthy billad, entitled " Hobin's Return," which is, en passant, an excellent specimen of a renliy good old Kiiglinh song. The applause with which she was greeted at its close could not be hiuhed until her return, worn she responded to tha encore with her piece do riiistance, of the Wheel, which, it is needless t-y s«y, was enthusiastically received. The duett " Sainted Mother" seetnoJ to escite generul admiration, and very narrowly escaped an encore. It was pr-rhaps the gem of tho eveniug's performance, 'lhe " Death of 2To'acn," given by 3!r. Sherwin in an open minly Btvle, also proved a speciol favourite with the audience. 'lhe;e talei-.tod vocalists appe.irod agaia on Saturday eve.-iing to a good house. IMadame Carandini was do.-ervudly encored in both of J.er sc.n«e, " Come Music with thy softest tones," and "The Harp that once, Af!." 51r. W. was well received in his sonjr, " Let mo like >i soldier fall," aud tho Misses Carandini were ftithnaia'stically applauded at frequent iuterviila during the perforrounce. Wo trvi-t the troupe will be encouraged to-remain another week in Auckland, when we have no dou they will meet with that amouut of public patronage which their ability fairly entitles them to receive.